雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第3章7:納伊姆

After three months Naeem had had enough. ‘We are supposed to be collecting money in enrolment fees. Instead the only people knocking on our doors are beggars! This is a Herculean task, ’ he added. ‘I can’t take any more!’

三個月之後，納伊姆受夠了。“我們本來應該已經開始計算報名費的收入了，但現在唯一會來敲門的，只有乞丐！這簡直是不可能完成的任務，”他補充道，“我沒辦法再忍下去了！”

By this time the two former friends were hardly speaking to each other and had to call in local elders to mediate. My father was desperate not to give up the school so agreed to pay Naeem a return on his share of the investment. He had no idea how. Fortunately another old college friend called Hidayatullah stepped in and agreed to put up the money and take Naeem’s place. The new partners again went from door to door, telling people they had started a new kind of school. My father is so charismatic that Hidayatullah says he is the kind of person who, if invited to your house, will make friends with your friends. But while people were happy to talk to him, they preferred to send their children to established schools.

到了這時候，這對昔日死黨已經幾乎不跟彼此說話了，還得勞駕長輩前來調停。父親實在不願放棄這所學校，他答應把納伊姆出資的那一部分還給他。但他完全不知道錢從哪裏來。幸運的是父親大學時的另一位好友希達亞圖拉出手介入，表示願意接手納伊姆的位置。這對新的搭檔再次挨家挨戶去招生，告訴大家他們成立了一所新式的學校。父親是個很有魅力的人，根據希達亞圖拉的說法，他就是那種如果受邀去你家，就會跟你的朋友都結爲好友的人。但是雖然大家都很樂於與父親聊天，他們卻還是都想把孩子送去念名校。

They named it the Khushal School after one of my father’s great heroes, Khushal Khan Khattak, the warrior poet from Akora just south of Swat, who tried to unify all Pashtun tribes against the Moghuls in the seventeenth century. Near the entrance they painted a motto: WE ARE COMMITTED TO BUILD FOR YOU THE CALL OF THE NEW ERA. My father also designed a shield with a famous quote from Khattak in Pashto: ‘I girt my sword in the name of Afghan honour.’ My father wanted us to be inspired by our great hero, but in a manner fit for our times – with pens, not swords. Just as Khattak had wanted the Pashtuns to unite against a foreign enemy, so we needed to unite against ignorance.

他們把學校命名爲胡沙爾學校，追崇我父親心中的另一位英雄--胡沙爾.汗.哈塔克，一名斯瓦特南方阿卡拉的戰士。他曾在17世紀時，試着將普什圖的所有部落聯合起來，對抗莫臥兒王朝。他們在學校大門旁漆上了一句箴言：我們致力引領潮流，打造全新趨勢。父親還設計了一個屏風，上面用普什圖語寫着一句哈塔克的名言：“我以阿富汗的榮耀之名，將刀劍繫上腰間。”父親希望我們能受到偉大英雄的啓發，但要學會使用我們這個時代應該使用的工具--筆，而不是刀劍。就像卡塔克希望普什圖人能團結起來抵禦外辱一樣，我們也要團結起來，抵禦冷漠。